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TL;DR: This paper reviews the major advances and discoveries in controlling small molecule drug and protein crystallization by means of engineered surfaces and underline the potential of surface‐induced crystallization to provide an ideal platform for the study of the nucleation process and gain control over its stochastic nature.

TL;DR: In this article, the synthesis of polymeric nanocapsules by means of miniemulsion cationic polymerization has been investigated and the core-shell structure was obtained by confining the reaction at the interface between continuous and dispersed phase of an oil-in-water mini-emulsion.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesized alginate nanoparticles using an inverse miniemulsion template in sunflower oil and successfully used them to encapsulate a hydrophilic herbicide, i.e., dicamba.

TL;DR: In the present study, inverse miniemulsion systems were successfully coupled to UV radiation to synthesize polymeric nanohydrogels for drug delivery and enabled unprecedented caffeine encapsulation efficiency inside 100-nm particles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the heterogeneous nucleation of a small-molecule drug and its relationship with the surface chemistry of engineered heteronucleants and presented a novel strategy for the evaluation of surfacedrug interactions by confining drug crystallization to thin films and studying the preferential growth of crystal planes on different surfaces.